Example sentences of "[adv] more than the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But The Orb are much more than the sum of their parts . |
| 2 | Deep sleep appears to be a response to our life-style and reflects the amount of prior wakefulness much more than the time of day when sleep is taken . |
| 3 | Perhaps more than the end of work , these had continued to spell riches and freedom . |
| 4 | I know the test is fairly expensive but it 's certainly not more than the cost of caring for babies born with the defects . ’ |
| 5 | Over a long period then , the cost of elections was still more than the cost of the permanent organization , and this cost was so great as to rule out all but a tiny minority . |
| 6 | However , he is not an unmitigated success , giving the show something slightly more than the banality of most sitcoms . |
| 7 | Leapor is given 22 full pages , slightly more than the Countess of Winchilsea [ see ECWP , 194–217 and 4–26 ] . |
| 8 | For around $7,700 — rather more than the cost of a burial — clients can be pickled and preserved for eternity . |
| 9 | If there were such ‘ memory peptides ’ and each was present in the brain in the concentration of scotophobin , then to code for the memories of a human lifetime would demand that the brain contained a mass of peptides weighing something of the order of 100 kilograms — or rather more than the weight of an average human . |
| 10 | He had been knocked unconscious on so many occasions that the process of revival had become for him little more than the formality of asking three simple questions as soon as his senses could be trusted to provide reliable answers . |
| 11 | We have seen how the interaction of environment and genes has had a feedback effect , and how the fossils of primitive horses show they were little more than the size of large dogs . |
| 12 | For roughly £2 million ( little more than the cost of one Falkland islander ) the British government can preserve both Henderson , Pitcairn and its own reputation for colonial fair play . |
| 13 | Eighty billion dollars was a little more than the mind of Colt could cope with . |
| 14 | And people in arrears who had bought at the top of the market could n't sell as their outstanding loan was often more than the value of their property . |
| 15 | The celebration of the martyr 's anniversary had grown out of the commemoration of the departed dead ; but it soon outgrew the limits of its origins and became far more than the expression of that larger family solidarity which embraced heaven and earth . |
| 16 | They seem to have their origin in Judaism far more than the rest of the book . |
| 17 | Similarly , Margaret Thatcher 's reaction to the Brixton and Toxteth riots captured the public mood far more than the analysis of the Opposition . |
| 18 | Its produce of fruit , fish , nuts , raisins , dyes , medicines and natural chemicals are worth far more than the value of cut timber . |
| 19 | In Britain , heavier lorries failed to pay an equitable share of the infrastructural costs of the road network while passenger transport was favoured by tax incentives for company cars equivalent to far more than the value of the annual rail subsidy ( TEST 1984a ; Potter and Cousins 1983 ; Bagwell 1984 ; ch. 1 ) . |
| 20 | What worried him far more than the prospect of change , was the fact that he shied away from it , as a man set in his ways , and that was something he had never considered himself to be . |
| 21 | The submergence of North Africa beneath the tide of Islam in the seventh century meant far more than the loss of one of the most intellectually vital parts of the Latin church . |
| 22 | Although we must not forget the sizeable minority who are caught in a poverty trap , during recent years wages and salaries have risen overall more than the cost of living , and educational opportunities have widened . |
| 23 | He moved and the slaves cowered back , as if , thought Nuadu , they had witnessed the next part before and feared it even more than the mutilating of the boy . |
| 24 | We need clean rivers even more than the rest of the population of our planet ! |
| 25 | Even more than the exaltation of influence , the love of secrecy was concerned with the exercise of power which had its source not in the collective past but in the force of the individual will . |
| 26 | According to Bob Wall : ‘ What impressed Chapman even more than the sureness of his hands was Frank 's physical courage . |
| 27 | What riled Amiss more than the rottenness of the food were the cries of appreciation from Alf and Bert at the fact that strawberry jam had been provided . |
| 28 | Fleischmann and Pons were seeing 25 per cent unaccounted-for heat sometimes and had not yet more than the hope of proving that there were neutrons proving fusion ; Jones claimed to have seen a few neutrons at levels which , while interesting for science and understanding aspects of the Earth , bore no large scale practical benefits — what use is a billionth of a watt ? |
| 29 | However , the implementation of a GIS user interface involves considerably more than the improvement of the human-computer interaction ( HCI ) process . |
| 30 | I do not want to make too big an issue of the large sums of money that are spent on taking LTA committee members and officials around the world , travelling in premium class and always staying in the best hotels , although it would seem that it is considerably more than the amount of money actually spent on transporting the competitors themselves . |